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Katie Bronge

Where did Storm go?: Representing Race and Gender in Superhero films - CURNBLOG - 8 views

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  • Katie Bronge on 30 Nov 14
     
    This article is about race and gender in superhero movies. I thought this quote from the article was really interesting "As somebody recently pointed out, there are currently more big budget superhero films headlined by blond men named Chris than by women and other ethnicities combined. Even when more diverse characters appear they do so in less prominent roles"
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  • Lauren Portz on 01 Dec 14
     
    I am looking at this same topic for my project, and I think that women have just been portrayed as the damsels in distress for so long that it is hard to get passed that. Would a movie like Iron Man be just as successful if it was Iron Woman? It is easier for women to appear as side kicks such as Piper in the Iron Man movies. Even though she is not the hero, she does a lot to contribute to the success of Tony Stark. Would it work the other way around?
  • jgrahek on 02 Dec 14
     
    I thought this was a great article for my research topic. A quote i enjoyed was when the author was talking about women in refrigerators and said, "female characters are killed off just to provide a motive for their male counterparts. In the films they seldom even garner this much attention". This is very true in many super hero movies.
  • shepherd_sn on 05 Dec 14
     
    This was a good article for my topic. My paper deals with diversity in regards to both gender and race and supported some of the points in my research. I also liked the part about X-Men because that was the movie I coded and am using as examples for my paper.
molly_loftus

The Rise of Superhero Therapy: Comic Books as Psychological Treatment - 1 views

www.thedailybeast.com/...s-psychological-treatment.html

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  • taylorgranell on 06 Nov 14
     
    A young boy sits in a psychologist's office, playing with action figures in a sand tray. There's an epic battle on the horizon, one that crosses traditional DC/Marvel lines. On one side there's Batman, Spider-Man, and Superman. On the other, there's an unpredictable fire-breathing dragon, with big eyes and sharp teeth.
  • taylorgranell on 06 Nov 14
     
    This article touches on the fact that the superhero characters are related to people within a child's life. Wonder Woman represents his mother, the fire-breathing dragon represents the troubles the child is facing, ect.
  • molly_loftus on 10 Nov 14
     
    This article is an example of Authority Theory. It is talking about how kids can use comic books and superhero movies as therapy. Since the article has a lot of quotes and examples from doctors about how it helps kids overcome their fear of monsters. They turned to superheroes to overcome those fears.
hannonjacobn

Superhero Origins And Their Mythic Meanings: Are They Veiled Secular Parables? - 0 views

www.comicbookmovie.com/...news

This article is an example of social comparison theory. It explains the lives a few superheroes: what they represent in our own and how we can relate to them.

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  • hannonjacobn on 09 Nov 14
     
    Ever since ancient times, humanity has sought to use stories to explain the world in which it lives. Just as ancient man used stories of gods and monsters to explain the world, modern man uses stories of godlike heroes and monstrous villains to do the same.
Katie Bronge

Female superheroes remain underrepresented in media - 13 views

www.collegiatetimes.com/...c8-5b3d-a339-f08c17dbf83f.html

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  • Katie Bronge on 04 Nov 14
     
    And for those of you not keeping count, Wonder Woman still remains at 1 feature-length film, which was an animated direct-to-video movie in 2009. Now, I'm no math major, but something seems off here. Where are all the female superheroes?
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  • samluciano on 16 Nov 14
     
    Good article focusing on the importance of having female characters, characters of color and characters of different sexualities because we are not a world of solely white, heterosexual males. This is often the stereotype in superheroes.
  • nk0596430 on 17 Nov 14
     
    This is a good article that talks about the lack of female superheroes in movies. It also touches on other groups that are not represented in this genre. Good article for a paper with the topic of gender.
  • molly_loftus on 17 Nov 14
     
    This is a very interesting article about how female superheroes are very underestimated. I think this would be a good article for anyone looking at gender. It is interesting because our data supports thus theory. Only one of the superhero movies in the data we have had a female as the superhero.
  • mpopp93 on 17 Nov 14
     
    I really enjoyed this article and it would be great for my research paper because I would like to talk about female vs. male superheros. Very good article.
samluciano

Comic Books Are Still Made By Men, For Men And About Men - 7 views

fivethirtyeight.com/...women-in-comic-books

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  • samluciano on 05 Nov 14
     
    To say the comic book industry has a slight gender skew is like saying Superman is kind of strong. Comic books - much like the film industry they now fuel - vastly under-represent women. The people who write comic books, particularly for major publishers, are overwhelmingly men.
  • ryanmcevoy on 17 Nov 14
     
    This article focuses on comic books as a male dominated industry. The problem that fighting for equality and more women in lead roles is that the industry will not change unless they all change. Meaning that why would they change from a male lead to a female lead, if they can make more money with the male superhero. The sad truth is that this will always be a problem within the superhero world. And this article talks exactly about that.
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